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Editorial
. 2023 Jan 19:12:e85301.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.85301.

How the brain stays in sync with the real world

Damian Koevoet #  1 , Andre Sahakian #  1 , Samson Chota  1
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Editorial

How the brain stays in sync with the real world

Damian Koevoet et al. Elife. .

Abstract

The brain can predict the location of a moving object to compensate for the delays caused by the processing of neural signals.

Keywords: EEG; brain; human; latency; motion; neural delays; neuroscience; prediction.

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Conflict of interest statement

DK, AS, SC No competing interests declared

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Motion processing in the human brain.
Johnson et al. compared how long it takes the brain to process visual information about static objects and moving objects. The static objects (top) did not move but were briefly shown in unpredictable locations on the screen: the delay between the appearance of the object and the representation of its location in the brain was about 80 milliseconds. However, when the object moved in a predictable manner (bottom), the delay was much smaller.
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